ZIM vs SA Full Scorecard, Zimbabwe T20I Tri Series 2025 Updates

1st T20I • Harare Sports Club • Harare

Zimbabwe

141/6 (20)

South Africa

142/5 (15.5)

SA won by 5 wickets

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Date & Time

14 Jul, 04:30 PM IST

Venue

Harare Sports Club

Match

1st T20I,

Zimbabwe T20I Tri Series 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Iknow Chabi (Zimbabwe), Langton Rusere (Zimbabwe), Forster Mutizwa (Zimbabwe, TV)

Referee

Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Toss

South Africa elected to bowl

Pitch Report

They've taken a lot of the grass off but it is very dry but quite nice and hard. We should see some purchase for the spinners and quite a few slower balls from the seamers. On the whole, it is a good T20 surface. There is of course a big boundary of over 75m to one side to consider!

1st Innings

154Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

129.22Avg SR

2nd Innings

137Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

122.04Avg SR

Weather Update

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

ZIM

0- 5

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Player of the Match Dewald Brevis

41(17)

ZIM

Info

Zimbabwe

141/6 (20)

Batters

Wesley Madhevere

11.11

hit wicket (Ngidi)

Brian Bennett

107.14

c Hendricks b Linde

Clive Madande

50.00

b Nqabayomzi Peter

Sikandar Raza

(C)

142.11

Not out

Ryan Burl

145.00

c Herman b Burger

Tashinga Musekiwa

112.50

c Hendricks b Linde

Tony Munyonga

0.00

c Simelane b Linde

Wellington Masakadza

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 7, NB: 1, W: 1)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 7.05)

141/6

Did not Bat

Richard Ngarava, Blessing Muzarabani, Trevor Gwandu

Bowlers

EXT

3.75

5.50

9.00

3.33

7.33

14.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Wesley Madhevere

hit wicket (Ngidi)

1-8

2.3

Clive Madande

b Nqabayomzi Peter

2-39

7.2

Brian Bennett

c Hendricks b Linde

3-55

10.5

Ryan Burl

c Herman b Burger

4-121

17.1

Tashinga Musekiwa

c Hendricks b Linde

5-138

19.2

Tony Munyonga

c Simelane b Linde

6-138

19.3

South Africa

142/5 (15.5)

Batters

Lhuan dre Pretorius

0.00

c & b Ngarava

Reeza Hendricks

122.22

b Ngarava

Rassie van der Dussen

(C)

123.08

c Burl b Gwandu

Rubin Hermann

121.62

b Ngarava

Dewald Brevis

241.18

c Bennett b Gwandu

Corbin Bosch

153.33

Not out

George Linde

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(15.5 Ov, RR: 8.97)

142/5

Did not Bat

Andile Simelane, Nqabayomzi Peter, Nandre Burger, Lungisani Ngidi

Bowlers

EXT

Richard Ngarava

8.75

Blessing Muzarabani

7.33

Trevor Gwandu

3.1

4.74

Wellington Masakadza

10.50

Sikandar Raza

2.4

9.00

Ryan Burl

25.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Lhuan dre Pretorius

c & b Ngarava

1-1

0.1

Reeza Hendricks

b Ngarava

2-17

2.3

Rassie van der Dussen

c Burl b Gwandu

3-38

5.4

Dewald Brevis

c Bennett b Gwandu

4-110

11.5

Rubin Hermann

b Ngarava

5-130

14.2

Match Info

Date & Time

14 Jul, 04:30 PM IST

Venue

Harare Sports Club

Match

1st T20I,

Zimbabwe T20I Tri Series 2025

Points Table

Schedule

Stats

Umpires

Iknow Chabi (Zimbabwe), Langton Rusere (Zimbabwe), Forster Mutizwa (Zimbabwe, TV)

Referee

Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Toss

South Africa elected to bowl

2 1 4 2 0 0

Over 13

Runs: 9

2 0 1 4 2 1

Over 14

Runs: 10

1 W 1 0 4 1

Over 15

Runs: 7

1 1 2 1 1

Over 16

Runs: 6

All Overs

Player of the Match Dewald Brevis

41(17)

Commentary

That'll be all from this game but there's loads more cricketing action lined up including Day 3 of the Jamaica Test later in the day. You can also catch what seems to be the closing moments of the Lord's Test - switch tabs and follow it all right here on Sportskeeda. For the moment, this is the duo of Bidipto Datta and Sooryanarayanan Sesha taking your leave. Thank you so much for tuning in as we hope you enjoyed our coverage. See you again soon - take care and buh-bye for now!

An impressive win for South Africa with their youngsters standing up to be counted. Zimbabwe will take the lessons from this game when they next face New Zealand on Friday. But they surely need to find a way to start well with the bat and not leave it all to Sikandar Raza again. That has become a pattern and it needs immediate addressing from their standpoint.

Rassie van der Dussen (South Africa captain): (What stood out for him?) Just the fearlessness of the young guys, Brevis coming in, Rubin Hermann. A bit of pressure, losing wickets early is never ideal but that partnership there was brilliant. We lost two overs with the ball but overall pretty happy with the performance. Dewald has played IPL, SA20. He's had a brilliant 6-12 months. He's young but experienced. Rubin has been doing well in the domestic circuit. He didn't look out of depth at all and it was brilliant to see. (On Ngidi) He was brilliant. He took the first over and really set the tone there. Well backed up as well. Out of the 20 overs we probably lost two and the rest of the guys kept calm and executed well. Chuffed about the bowling, it was a good wicket out there. A little bit but not too much. We didn't know what to expect. Lungi got it to seam but they (Zimbabwe) got it to swing as well. When the hardness in the ball goes it becomes a bit more true.

Dewald Brevis is the Player of the Match for his 17-ball 41. Here's what he has to say: When I made my mark there it was a very big privilege for me to represent South Africa again. Just wanted to enjoy it and do things that I was doing well. Super grateful and glad to get across the line. I'm just watching the ball and wherever the ball should go, it had to go. God blessed me with some talent and I'm grateful. (What was the chat like with Hermann?) It was quite clear - we were in an interesting position but we were a few boundaries away so there was no need to really rush anything. We just needed to stick together. It wasn't a big total to chase. We just needed to keep it simple and play.

Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe captain): "I thought we got stuck a little bit in the middle period with the bat. George Linde bowled well too. But, now, we have the idea of the wicket. Batting first against the new ball is tough in the winter, but still, we will look to improve. Richard Ngarava is a courageous cricketer and he pushes really hard to improve! Trevor Gwandu too is picking up. Blessing of course is always there for us. It's going to take a lot of patience to keep getting better for us. I try to learn a lot from all the franchise cricket I play and share with the boys. The scoreboards may not reflect our improvement, but we have to keep it going. We've got to make sure that our standards go up."

4:18 PM local time (7:48 PM IST): Time for the post-match presentation!

4:08 PM local time (7:38 PM IST): South Africa beat Zimbabwe by 5 wickets!

Rubin Hermann 45 (37) | George Linde 3/10 (3)
Sikandar Raza 54* (38) | Richard Ngarava 3/35 (4)

A comprehensive win for the Proteas and they register two points against their name in this tri-series opener. It was a game they dominated pretty much from start to finish despite flashes of promise from Zimbabwe, thanks to Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl with the bat and their seamers in the powerplay, who nabbed three wickets in that phase to keep South Africa in check.

Lhuan-dre Pretorius perished in the first over for a duck, heaving one back to Richard Ngarava without moving his feet. Reeza Hendricks began well but he played on soon as Ngarava bagged a second. Debutant Rubin Hermann got off the mark with a six over fine leg but the dots piled up on him even as skipper Rassie van der Dussen wasn't afraid to play the big shot, even unleashing the ramp. His wicket sure threw a spanner into South Africa's works though and it was down to the young pair of Hermann and Dewald Brevis to steady the ship.

Both batters duly answered the team's call though, taking the spinners on without breaking a sweat. Hermann unshackled himself with three successive boundaries off Wellington Masakadza while Brevis tore into Raza and dumped a couple of half-trackers over the fence, even hitting the roof on one occasion. Ryan Burl's leggies were severely dealt with as Brevis clobbered him for a hat-trick of sixes, showing just why he is such a feared batter against spin while also killing the chase in the progress.

By the time the seamers returned and Brevis fell for a 17-ball 41, it was too late. Hermann too was castled as he fell short of a half-century but Corbin Bosch ensured that there were no hiccups. In the end, it was a smooth finish for this young Proteas side who have laid down an early marker in some fashion. The batters duly responded after the bowlers set things up early on with a solid display. Stick around for the presentation...

There it is! A handsome win for South Africa and they get home with a whopping 25 deliveries to spare!

15.5 Sikandar Raza to George Linde, SOUTH AFRICA WIN AT A CANTER! Short on off-stump. Pulled away over mid-wicket off the back foot for a single to the fielder in the deep. They get their first points on the board in this tri-nation series!

Around the wicket.

15.4 Sikandar Raza to Corbin Bosch, short and slow on the leg-stump line. Tucked off the back foot to deep square-leg for a single. One run needed!

That's an interesting shot alright. 2 runs to win...

15.3 Sikandar Raza to Corbin Bosch, over the wicket, good-length off-break around leg-stump. Reverse-swept against the turn to deep backward point for a brace now.

15.2 Sikandar Raza to George Linde, round the wicket, short on middle-stump. Hoicked around to deep square-leg off the back foot for one.

Around the wicket to Linde.

Gwandu is unable to complete the over despite his best efforts in trying to do so. Sikandar Raza [2.0-0-19-0] will complete the over.

The bowler's down on the ground in some pain. Seems like a cramp and he's getting it tended to.

15.1 Trevor Gwandu to Corbin Bosch, full and slow around off-stump. An on-drive off the front foot to pick up a single to the man in the deep.

Just one more strike and South Africa will get on the board for the series. Bosch has batted pretty well and surely, he'd want to wrap this up in style!

overs

136 /5 score

runs

Corbin Bosch *

19 (12)

George Linde

1 (1)

Richard Ngarava

3 /35

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